Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of OsijekFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Place

Osijek

State

Croatia

Scientific field, discipline, subdiscipline

SOCIAL SCIENCESPsychologySocial Psychology

Study programme type

university

Study level

graduate

Study programme

Psychology (single major); specializations in: Teacher Training

Study specialization

Teacher Training

Academic title abbreviation

mag. psych.

Genre

master's thesis

Language

Croatian

Defense date

2012-12-18

Parallel abstract (English)

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sex roles and competitive anxiety. Subjects were taekwondo athletes who had national and international competition experience. 113 athletes completed Bem Sex-Role Inventory and were classified into one of four categories of sex roles (masculinity, femininity, androgyny, undifferentiated). Each subject then completed Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2. In line with the hypothesis, undifferentiated athletes were excluded from further analysis and the total sample consisted of 88 athletes. It was hypothesised that feminine athletes will have significantly higher levels of competitive anxiety than masculine athletes, while androgynous athletes will not differ significantly from the feminine and masculine ones. The ANOVA results partially confirmed the hypothesis. There was a significant difference in the competitive anxiety between the three groups of athletes. Feminine athletes experienced the highest levels of anxiety, followed by androgynous athletes, while the lowest levels of anxiety were found in masculine athletes.